The municipality of Tomé-Açu/PA has development geared to wards agriculture, but as a result of
deforestation and the city's growth, the population has become susceptible to contact with vectors of
Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (IPDs). Due to insufficient information on the spatial distribution of
the occurrence of DIPs in the mesoregion of northeastern Pará and the possibility of new information
that contributes to the environmental management of municipalities, this work seeks to map the spatial
distribution of 2008 and 2018 on the cases registered in the municipality. It is, therefore, a quantitative
and qualitative research that correlates the Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Malaria IPDs with
deforestation. The data were obtained from the municipality's health secretary to obtain the places
where the diseases occurred. After the data import procedure, the Kernel Density estimator and the
Global Moran Index were applied to generate maps for 2008 and 2018 that show the different densities
of the phenomena and the areas of greatest epidemiological risk, where the use and occupation of the
are predominant factors for the epidemic of IPDs in the region due to human occupation in the vicinity
of newly deforested areas. According to the numbers of registered cases, Cutaneous Leishmania is was
the disease with the highest incidence in the years 2008 and 2018. However, Malaria predominated in the rural area in 2008. It is concluded that the methodology used can contribuited the understanding
from where surveillance and control actions for the population's health could be intensified.
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